Powers must remain separated

We resist government power up until the moment we perceive that it will benefit our particular cause. Then we laud its brilliance.

You can scarcely turn on the radio or open a story on the web without coming across a Republican complaining loudly about Pres. Obama and his tendency to use executive orders like a battering ram to knock down the walls separating government powers. If Congress won’t pass the laws he wants, Obama just legislates through the bureaucracy.

The GOP is right to protest. But sadly, if one of the Republican candidates should ascend to the White House throne in 2012, he or she will undoubtedly continue the same practice. And we will hear crickets chirping from the right side of the political aisle. After all, the Republican president will wield those executive powers for “good” as opposed to those evil Democrats who only wanted to destroy America. Of course, the Dems will disagree, and caterwauling will replace the silence we’ve now come to expect from the left with “their man” in power.

Lost in all of the political jockeying – principle.
Policy certainly plays vital role in the functioning of our Republic. But to ignore the foundational principles upon which the U.S. rests simply to “get things done” poses a far graver danger than failure to implement this or that policy. By placing pragmatism over principle, we risk collapsing our entire constitutional structure.

On Sept. 17, 1796, George Washington delivered his farewell address. He offers a warning we’d do well to consider today.

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield.

2 thoughts on “Powers must remain separated”

It is funny you point out the very popular view that it is all about my needs versus all about good solid principals. Its like a playground of children unknowingly picking sides by who is the most popular in their mind that meets their personal needs.

Policy does take a role and the question that should be asked is does the policy promote the principals of A Republic or some self satisfaction?

What are the great principals of this country and of this Republic?

How little so few know leaving such education practices to Governments and supposed experts, ya of stupidity.

Our greatest lessons lay in our Declaration of Independence as our foundation and in our Constitution as Liberty but so many think these are separated but in fact are one in support of the other. The Constitution as Liberty, one of the very basic principals in A Republic. The Declaration of Independence the Foundation of such a principal with great warnings an all documented truths shared with us the people choosing to be independent of obtrusive governments.

A Government is an entity all its own when not enforced to follow its guidelines will do no other act than to make itself some other authority which is not valid. It is made up of those who hold no values, no principals and no results of support for A Republic. This is why there is a Constitution to be followed but who is this that upholds this sacred honor?

It is the people who are informed of this Republic, that know full well its principals, its foundation and its full meaning. It is by informed choices these are brought into being for nothing was put here without the act of choice now was it?

We should recognize our total power for which we each carry and how it is this is carried out. Because we don’t we have become very weak and this is not what life is for at all.

It is not what I think but rather the results I can show that proves the truths. So show me one item today put here by man that was done so without choice, SHOW ME!

It would be wise to become aware of informed decision making wouldn’t it? All bad results are only poor choices by ignorant people unwilling to explore themselves.

It is funny you point out the very popular view that it is all about my needs versus all about good solid principals. Its like a playground of children unknowingly picking sides by who is the most popular in their mind that meets their personal needs.

Policy does take a role and the question that should be asked is does the policy promote the principals of A Republic or some self satisfaction?

What are the great principals of this country and of this Republic?

How little so few know leaving such education practices to Governments and supposed experts, ya of stupidity.

Our greatest lessons lay in our Declaration of Independence as our foundation and in our Constitution as Liberty but so many think these are separated but in fact are one in support of the other. The Constitution as Liberty, one of the very basic principals in A Republic. The Declaration of Independence the Foundation of such a principal with great warnings an all documented truths shared with us the people choosing to be independent of obtrusive governments.

A Government is an entity all its own when not enforced to follow its guidelines will do no other act than to make itself some other authority which is not valid. It is made up of those who hold no values, no principals and no results of support for A Republic. This is why there is a Constitution to be followed but who is this that upholds this sacred honor?

It is the people who are informed of this Republic, that know full well its principals, its foundation and its full meaning. It is by informed choices these are brought into being for nothing was put here without the act of choice now was it?

We should recognize our total power for which we each carry and how it is this is carried out. Because we don’t we have become very weak and this is not what life is for at all.

It is not what I think but rather the results I can show that proves the truths. So show me one item today put here by man that was done so without choice, SHOW ME!

It would be wise to become aware of informed decision making wouldn’t it? All bad results are only poor choices by ignorant people unwilling to explore themselves.